RE: [CBQ] Re: Steam loco generator on EMD switcher?

["John Hagen" <sprinthag@yahoo.com>]

Yeah but a steam powered generator of any kind needs pressurized steam to make electricity. Where on a switcher would that steam come from?

 

John Hagen

 

From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of jonnyo55
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 5:53 AM
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Subject: [CBQ] Re: Steam loco generator on EMD switcher?

 

 

Perhaps I should have made it more clear; the hood-top generator I'm referring to resembles an electrical, as in turbo-generator, on a steam loco. I suspect it IS to run the radio, as the locomotive in question features the "wagon wheel" antenna at its usual location among the radiator shutters...but why would the Q (presumably) use a cast-off steam loco turbogenerator for power when there's a rather large generator (800-1200 hp) directly below it?

John O'Connell

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "jonnyo55" <jonnyo55@...> wrote:
>
> Hello to all. On page 191 of the MARVELOUS "Burlington Waycars" book, there's an EMD switcher in the background (two, actually). At the right edge of the picture, there is what appears to be a generator from a steam loco mounted on the top of the hood, in front of the cab. Is this what it is? Was it there to power the radio, or what??
>
> John O'Connell
>

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